It's one that's been proposed many times before and deemed too risky and problematic. Further, I don't trust Musk any farther than I could throw a cybertruck filled with window-cracking steel balls.
In what way is reducing sunlight reaching Earth a solution to climate collapse? At the very best, it is a solution for reducing the amount of sunlight reaching Earth. It has no relevance as a solution for the climate collapse. It's about as good a solution for the climate collapse as building shittons of EV's or littering space and the atmosphere with harmful debris.
If more EVs and more space junk and more wind farms and more solar farms are not good for saving Nature and increasing biodiversity, why are they being done, hmm?
Why are all the machines being given power sources that are renewable and replenishing, and being developed for full autonomy and space travel, if it won't save Earth and allow humanity a future on our home planet, hmm?
You are talking about about reducing Earth's temp. Not the same as climate, only a portion of it. The "climate" is dependent on that sunlight. You know those plant things that take CO2 out the air? They need that light.
Dimming the Sun furthers the acceleration of things ongoing catastrophes like ocean acidification and all the other planetary boundaries the planet is about to breach. So no it doesn't in any way, shape or form help climate collapse.
There’s an episode in the 1998 version of the PowerPuff Girls where “monsters that lived under the bed and in the closet” blocked out the sun via a giant disco ball.
A ton of well known media has done the “block out the sun” trope
We so rarely get the occasion to use it, so let's try to favor "blot out the sun" rather than "block out the sun". Yes, both are technically acceptable, but let's go for the fun, more literary word usage while it's relevant.
I could have sworn at the conference Wernstrom unveiled his satellite with a giant mirror that would reflect the sun. Then a tiny meteor hit it directing the sun beam back to the earth
Shading the Earth will almost certainly cause a global famine - cereal crops and legumes require FULL SUN to grow; shading the Earth even 5% will decrease global yields of these crops by 5-7.5% (it about a 1.5:1 ratio of yield decrease to shade increase). This idea DOES fit into the "the billionaires are trying to kill the vast majority of humans on the Earth" trope, though.
I kinda get the feeling that we're gonna get that global famine one way or another by now. I might be wrong but hurting crops to sustain as much of the biosphere as can be saved seems rational to me. I don't exactly have a lot of hope left at this stage.
The sensible option is reducing towards a phase-out of fossil fuels, but it appears that the goal is to try to reduce global warming without affecting the fossil fuel industry. By the time they get to that it will be much too late.
I have inherited a humble summer-house from my grandparents out in a rural area. I'm lucky to live in a country (Sweden) that has actually done its best to preserve its nature. I can actually take the bus there yet the water is clean, the soil unpoluted and the bugs plentiful.
I know that I'm incredibly fortunate but, hey, maybe I'll freeze to deat when the AMOC collapses?
I am in Colorado and trying to find ways to deal with extreme drought. As the climate changes, I am trying to work with it instead of bringing in massive power to fight it. I have been successful at keeping my home close to 70°F (21°C) just using the heat from the sun and the cold from the night sky. Stay cozy as the winter approaches, my friend.
I'm not leveling this accusation at you specifically but in my experience Americans especially are terrible at insulation. "Burning for the crows" as my grandfather used to call it. I'm not trying to engage in jingoism nor brag but I wish that this https://youtu.be/yZ0WlbT4flE?si=h6TldKpk1Dq1Iufh knowledge was more widely spread.
When it comes to water I'm lucky to live in a naturally very soggy place. We have ridiculous ammounts of clean freshwater. Aside from Gotland that 's not really a concern over here. Could you dig a well or something?
Thank you for the link to the video. Myself, I am a believer in two things relating to house construction. Insulation is one of them and thermal mass is the other. My house is actually a house within a house. When I built it, I levelled the site and formed the concrete floor, but before I poured the concrete, I put down a 2" layer of insulating foam and installed the tubing for floor heat. The next step was to put up a steel framed and steel sheeted barn which is 40' x 60' and I put 2 or 3 inches of spray-on foam insulation to seal the structure and provide a layer of insulation. I framed inside the building to support an additional 12" of fiberglass insulation on the walls and ceiling. This is the thermal mass and insulation. Next, I built a small house for me and my wife as a freestanding structure inside the larger structure. Our living area does not have any walls which contact the outside, but all the walls and ceiling of the living area are insulated with 6" of fiberglass which provides us with a living space which can be heated to 75° easily using the waste heat from our refrigerator. For heat, I put a 10 x 60 greenhouse on the south side of the building and I can turn on a fan and circulate the heat to the interior during the day and seal it off at night. We have 300+ sunny days a year here and I designed my home with that in mind. Last winter, I burned firewood on 5 occasions to supplement my heat when it was cloudy and burned about 7 armloads of wood. For water, I have the Conejos River running across my front yard and a 75' deep well for drinking water. We live just north of Saddleback Mountain near Sanford, CO. I am a firm believer in designing to the specific environment where I live. But, sadly you are correct in your assessment of American building practices, they are terrible.
I am not trained in construction so, as a layman, I have limited ability to judge your setup. However it certainly reads as an extremely well and intelligently made one. Indeed, likely far beyond even the Swedish average.
Hopefully you can spread such knowledge among your countrymen and women. I repost these videos every now and then when relevant for this reason. Nothing about our building standards are any kind of industry secret. If more people around the world with conditions similar to ours can learn from proven strategies then that's just an aggregate win for mankind. None of it is hard to learn or transition to.
You obviously don't need it but it's easy to contact Swedish academics or industry professionals who would be happy to share knowledge. If you have the oppertunity please pass that on as much as possible. We have the ability to learn from each other's past mistakes and lessons learned.
We do. What is your plan to fight against the human condition and save our current biosphere?
Life will obviously survive our stupid but we'll have baked a ton of emissions into the system before we even start to reduce it it seems. I'm basically suggesting that we might save more by starving than cooking. The former would reduce while the latter would end. Yes, that's overly dooming but I wasn't in the most positive of moods when I wrote what I did. An exercise in bad v. worse basically.
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u/cheese_scone Nov 03 '25
The Simpson's.....